India is only behind the United States and Brazil in the number of confirmed infections.
The coronavirus epidemic in India is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing by 20% last week to more than 1.4 million confirmed cases, according to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Tracker.
Infections in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people have reached 1.43 million, including 32,771 deaths, India’s health ministry said, with daily cases nearing a record high of 50,000 on Monday. India currently only trails the United States and Brazil in terms of the number of confirmed infections, but its growth of new cases is the fastest.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are among the states where the maximum number of daily care is reported. The world‘s second most populous country has stepped up testing, with 515,472 samples taken on Sunday, according to the Indian Council for Medical Research.
Yet India and Brazil have some of the lowest test rates in the world, with 11.8 tests and 11.93 tests per 1,000 people respectively, compared to the United States with 152.98 tests per 1,000 and Russia. with 184.34, according to Our World in Data, a project based on University of Oxford in the UK
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